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is produced , the layers of quicksand are gradually consolidated into 
an iron-coloured sandstone, which differs from the sandstone depo- 
sited from water only in this, that in the former there are animal 
and vegetable remains from both the land and the sea promiscuously 
embedded in it ; a circumstance , which , for the correct interpreta- 
tion of a great many remarkable facts in older sandstone formations, 
is decidedly worthy of notice. In this manner, a large portion of 
the sandstone strata composing the coast-range between the Manukau 
and the Waikato, seems to have been formed. 
Section through the coast-range between Manukau Harbour and the West Coast. 
Passing through a small valley , we arrived by a rapidly des- 
cending path to a place on the coast, called Eukuwai after some 
sandstone-cliffs , and hastened close by the white foaming surge 
upon a sand-beach strewn with shells, in full speed towards the 
mouth of the Waikato River. At about four o’clock we arrived at 
the North Head upon the right bank of the river. A quickly 
kindled lire informed the Maoris dwelling opposite , that there were 
travellers waiting to be ferried over; and, indeed, ere long we saw 
their canoes starting off to receive us. We sent our horses back, 
and had ourselves rowed over at a place, which is already quite 
out of the reach of the surge , and where the river measures about 
half a mile in breadth. On the other side we found a Maori settlement 
Maraetai, (i. e. near the salt-water), consisting of 7 or 8 huts, and but 
a short distance from it , at the foot of a wood-clad ridge , at the 
edge of a little dell, stands the house of the Rev Mr. Maunsell, 
a deserted missionary station. Since Mr. Maunsell has moved 
farther up the river to Kohanga, the house has been utterly ne- 
glected, and seems to be but rarely inhabited. We, however, hap- 
pened to find one of the missionary’s sons there, and made ourselves 
as comfortable as possible in the scantily furnished dwelling. 
